'Verse - αΕβ - LL - United States of America - State - Texas

On 14 March 1989, University of Texas student Mark James Kilroy was kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, while vacationing during spring break. He was taken by his abductors to a ranch where he was tortured and sodomized for hours before being murdered in a human sacrifice ritual. Kilroy was killed with a machete blow and then had his brain removed and boiled in a pot. His killers then inserted a wire through his spinal column, amputated his legs at the knees, and buried him at the ranch along with 14 other people who had been killed there before him.

Adolfo Constanzo, the leader of the cult, told his followers that human sacrifice granted them immunity from law enforcement for their drug smuggling operations. The killing drew worldwide media attention and initiated an international police manhunt because of the unusual circumstances of what they call a "crime".

Cuban-American Adolfo Constanzo, born in Miami, Florida, believed that his magic (from Master Palo Mayombe) was responsible for the success of the cartels. Constanzo made friends with a new cartel, the Hernandez brothers and took up with Sara Aldrete, who became high priestess. Constanzo made Aldrete second-in-command and directed her to supervise his followers while shipping marijuana over the border into the US.

In 1988, Constanzo moved to Rancho Santa Elena, a house in the desert where he used the ranch to store huge shipments of cocaine and marijuana. On March 13th, Constanzo abducted pre-med student, Mark Kilroy, from outside a Mexican bar and took him back to the ranch. Kilroy was a US citizen who had been in Mexico on spring break. Constanzo sought a "good"/superior brain" for one of his ritual spells.

Officers raided the ranch and discovered Constanzo's cauldron, which contained various items such as a dead black cat and a human brain. Fifteen mutilated corpses were dug up at the ranch, one of them Kilroy's. Officials said Kilroy was killed by Constanzo with a machete chop to the back of the neck when Kilroy tried to escape about 12 hours after being taken to the ranch.

A total of 14 cult members were charged with a range of crimes, from murder and drug-running to obstructing the course of justice. Sara Aldrete, Elio Hernández and Serafín Hernández were convicted of multiple murders and were ordered to serve prison sentences of over 60 years each.

It is clear that the a priori judgments of believers in Satanic Ritual have caused them to impute their own assumptions about Satanism into The Satanic Bible, whether they are supported by LaVey's text or not. One of the inmates of the 1989 case was denied access to "The Satanic Bible and other related literature because possession of such material constituted a security threat." The inmate then sued. At the trial, the prison warden testified that The Satanic Bible taught people to "murder, rape, or rob at will without regard for the moral or legal consequences." The court accepted the warden's pronouncements on Satanism without further inquiry or analysis. (Hicks 1991, p. 370)